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- 1993
His single mother has been seeing some men whose presence in the house makes it impossible for thirteen-year old Nick (Christian Tafdrup) to remain. He finds shelter with a man named Ralph (Stig Hoffmeyer), who enjoys him as a sexual boy-toy until his girlfriend comes back from wherever she's been. Nick, living on the streets, does a little hustling to get by until he gets involved with a gang led by Rene (Danish pop star Dicte), a girl posing as a boy. The two even become lovers for a time, but events accelerate and Nick once again confronts his treacherous confidante, Ralph. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
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- Christian Tafdrup, Dicte, (more)
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- 1984
This documentary by Greta Schiller takes a look at the sometimes oblique American acknowledgment of homosexuals in the decades before a historical flashpoint in 1969. Late that year, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village was stormed by police and its patrons arrested -- resulting in two days of rioting. Allen Ginsberg and other celebrities talk about past police tactics, witch-hunts, censorship, and historical "cleansing" operations that violated human rights and civil liberties -- such as routing gays and lesbians out of the State Department. A certain openness about sexual preferences started appearing in the 1920s and accelerated during World War II, eventually culminating in the organized movements of the 1960s and later demanding an end to discrimination. Older and younger generations of gays and lesbians present different viewpoints on a variety of topics, and conflicts or disagreements between gays and lesbians are outlined. The seriousness of the subject of discrimination is balanced with humor, which makes this documentary more accessible to straight audiences unfamiliar with the topic. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
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- 1919
Thought to have been lost for decades, German filmmaker Richard Oswald's 1919 picture Different From the Others was eventually discovered to have survived the Nazi era. The films stars Conrad Veidt of Casablanca and centers on the oppression brought upon Germany's homosexual men as a result of the penal code's controversial Paragraph 175. The silent film also stars Leo Connard and Ilse Von Tasso-Lind. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
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- Conrad Veidt
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- 1928
One of the films Wilhelm Dieterle made in his native Germany before escaping the Nazi and becoming Hollywood director William Dieterle. Dieterle plays Sommer, a young husband who is sentenced to a jail term after killing a man who was threatening his wife. During their time apart, he finds sexual release with one of his fellow prisoners, while his wife (Mary Johnson) starts up a physical relationship with her boss, the only person who offers her any help while her husband is imprisoned. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
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- 1993
Steven Gale (J. Evan Bonifant) is an artistically inclined six-year-old boy in the 1950's, who is especially fascinated by the television antics of Dottie Frank (Julie Halston) a zany comedienne with her own weekly show (similar to Lucille Ball on I Love Lucy -- his mother (Barbara Garrick) tolerates and even encourages his drawing, but his father (Robert Pall) doesn't understand the boy or his interests. Steven watches "The Dottie Frank Show" whenever it's on, and draws Dottie and dreams her. He does have contact with day-to-day reality, in the form of other children but he always feels separate from them, the other boys failing to understand or even regard him while the girls quietly ridicule him; but mostly he's isolated from them because of his rich fantasy life, which involves Dottie, the girls he knows, and himself. He strikes a quiet, careful (if uneasy) balance in his life between fantasy and reality, until one fateful day when he wins a contest that allows him to visit the set of "The Dottie Frank Show" -- and as luck would have it, he's present as his favorite television star and the object of his obsession acts out a scene that plays to his deepest fantasies. Steven's dreams become more vivid, as do his drawings, which leads to his parents discovering his fantasies. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
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